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1 History  





2 Facilities  



2.1  Runways  





2.2  Terminals  



2.2.1  Terminal 1  





2.2.2  Terminal 2  





2.2.3  Terminal 3  





2.2.4  Terminal 4  









3 Airlines and destinations  



3.1  Passenger  





3.2  Cargo  







4 Statistics  





5 Other facilities  





6 Ground Transport  





7 See also  





8 References  





9 External links  














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Coordinates: 43°5426N 87°2827E / 43.90722°N 87.47417°E / 43.90722; 87.47417
 

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Ürümqi Diwopu International Airport


ئۈرۈمچى دىۋوپۇ خەلقئارا ئايروپورتى
乌鲁木齐地窝堡国际机场
View of Terminal 2 in 2023
  • ICAO: ZWWW
  • Summary
    Airport typePublic
    OperatorXinjiang Airport Group Co. Ltd.
    ServesÜrümqi
    LocationDiwopu, Xinshi, Ürümqi, Xinjiang, China
    Opened1973; 51 years ago (1973)
    Hub for
  • Urumqi Air
  • Focus city forHainan Airlines
    Elevation AMSL648 m / 2,126 ft
    Coordinates43°54′26N 87°28′27E / 43.90722°N 87.47417°E / 43.90722; 87.47417
    Websitewww.xjairport.com
    Map
    URC is located in Xinjiang
    URC

    URC

    Location in Xinjiang

    URC is located in China
    URC

    URC

    Location in China

    Runways
    Direction Length Surface
    m ft
    07/25 3,600 11,811 Concrete
    Statistics (2021)
    Passengers16,880,507
    Aircraft movements138,724
    Cargo (metric tons)137,444.8

    Source: DAFIF[1][2] Source: List of the busiest airports in China

    Ürümqi Diwopu International Airport
    Chinese name
    Simplified Chinese乌鲁木齐地窝堡国际机场
    Traditional Chinese烏魯木齊地窩堡國際機場
    Uyghur name
    Uyghurئۈرۈمچى دىۋوپۇ خەلقئارا ئايروپورتى

    Ürümqi Diwopu International Airport (IATA: URC, ICAO: ZWWW) is an international airport serving Ürümqi, the capital of Northwest China‘s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. It is located in the Diwopu township of Xinshi district, 16 km (9.9 mi) northwest of downtown Ürümqi. As a hub for China Southern Airlines and as a focus city for Hainan Airlines, the airport handled 23,027,788 passengers in 2018, making it the 19th busiest airport in China by passenger traffic.[3]

    History[edit]

    Urumqi Airport was opened to foreign passengers in 1973,[4] and has been used for emergency landings for flights between Europe and west Asia.

    Facilities[edit]

    The airport covers an area of 484 hectares (1,200 acres). Its newly built runway is 3,600 m (11,800 ft) in length. The airport can allow the landing of large aircraft such as the Boeing 747. The 110,000 m2 (1,200,000 sq ft) apron can accommodate over 30 aircraft.[citation needed]

    Runways[edit]

    Terminals[edit]

    Terminal 1[edit]

    The original terminal opened in 1974. It was closed between April 23, 2011, and August 30, 2013, for renovation.[5] On April 1, 2014, operations were resumed.[6] After the transformation of the T1 terminal has six security channels, 19 check-in counters, with the peak hourly 700 times the business capacity.[clarification needed][7] This terminal is mainly for regional aviation around Xinjiang province and low-cost aviation use, including Tianjin Airlines, Capital Aviation, Spring Airlines, Yunnan Xiangpeng Airlines, China United Airlines, Okay Airways and Western Airlines.[8]

    Terminal 2[edit]

    Construction on this terminal started in April 1994, was completed in December 2001 through the national acceptance, and on May 12, 2002, the terminal opened. On July 10, 2010, it closed for a renovation project, and resumed operations on April 16, 2011.[9] It serves most domestic routes outside of Xinjiang province, except for China Southern, Xiamen and Chongqing Airlines flights.

    Waiting hall
  • Arrival tunnel
    Arrival tunnel
  • Waiting hall towards Terminal 3
    Waiting hall towards Terminal 3
  • Terminal 2 exterior
    Terminal 2 exterior
  • Terminal 3[edit]

    Construction of Terminal 3 to the west of the older terminal building began in April 2007 at a cost of 2.8 billion yuan (350 million U.S. dollars). It increased Diwopu's ability to handle more than three times its 2007 capacity of 5.13 million passengers annually to 16.35 million passengers annually. It can also handle 275,000 tons of cargo and 155,000 aircraft a year. Terminal 3 added 22 more jet bridges and nearly 106,000 square meters of new terminal space.[10] The terminal opened in 2009.

    Terminal 3 exterior
  • Check-in zone B
    Check-in zone B
  • Check-in zone C
    Check-in zone C
  • Boarding gate
    Boarding gate
  • Terminal 3 entrance
    Terminal 3 entrance
  • Terminal 4[edit]

    Terminal 4 in September 2023

    An expansion project, which began in 2017, is underway and will see a new terminal building covering almost 400,000 sq meters as well as two additional runways north of the existing one.[11]

    Airlines and destinations[edit]

    Passenger[edit]

    AirlinesDestinations
    9 Air Guangzhou, Jiayuguan,[12] Zhongwei
    Air China Aksu, Beijing–Capital, Chengdu–Shuangliu, Chengdu–Tianfu, Chongqing, Guangzhou, Hangzhou, Hotan, Kashgar, Shanghai–Pudong, Tianjin, Wuhan, Xining, Yining, Yuncheng
    Hajj: Jeddah, Medina
    Ariana Afghan Airlines Seasonal: Kabul
    Beijing Capital Airlines Beijing–Daxing, Hangzhou, Xiamen, Zhengzhou
    Chengdu Airlines Chengdu–Shuangliu,[13] Kashgar[14]
    China Eastern Airlines Beijing–Daxing, Guangzhou, Hangzhou, Hefei, Kashgar, Kunming, Nanjing, Shanghai–Hongqiao, Shanghai–Pudong, Shiyan, Taiyuan, Wuhan, Wuxi, Xi'an
    China Express Airlines Chongqing
    China Southern Airlines Aksu, Almaty, Altay, Aral, Ashgabat, Astana,[15] Baku,[15] Bangkok–Suvarnabhumi, Beijing–Daxing, Bishkek, Bole, Changchun, Changsha, Chengdu–Shuangliu, Chongqing, Dalian, Dubai–International,[16] Dushanbe, Fuyun, Fuzhou, Guangzhou, Guiyang, Haikou, Hangzhou, Hefei, Hohhot, Hong Kong,[17] Hotan, Islamabad, Jinan, Kanas, Karamay, Kashgar, Khujand, Korla, Kunming, Kuqa, Lahore, Lanzhou, Mianyang, Moscow–Sheremetyevo,[18] Nanchang, Nanjing, Nanning, Nanyang, Novosibirsk, Qiemo, Qingdao, Ruoqiang, Saint Petersburg, Samarqand,[19] Sanya, Shache, Shanghai–Hongqiao, Shanghai–Pudong, Shenyang, Shenzhen, Tacheng, Taipei–Taoyuan, Tashkent, Tashkurgan, Tbilisi, Tehran–Imam Khomeini, Tianjin, Tumxuk, Vienna, Wenzhou, Wuhan, Xiamen, Xi'an, Xining, Xuzhou, Yinchuan, Yining, Yiwu, Yutian, Zhaosu, Zhengzhou, Zhuhai
    China United Airlines Beijing–Daxing[20]
    Chongqing Airlines Chongqing
    FlyArystan Astana[21]
    GX Airlines Fuyang,[22] Haikou,[22] Yichang
    Hainan Airlines Beijing–Capital, Changsha, Chengdu–Shuangliu, Chengdu–Tianfu, Chongqing, Guangzhou, Haikou, Hangzhou, Hohhot, Hotan,[23] Jinan, Kashgar, Kuqa, Lanzhou, Nanjing, Ningbo,[24] Sanya, Shanghai–Hongqiao, Shenyang, Shenzhen, Taiyuan, Wenzhou, Wuhan, Xiamen, Xi'an, Yichang, Zhengzhou, Zhuhai
    Hebei Airlines Shijiazhuang
    Hong Kong Airlines Hong Kong[17]
    Jiangxi Air Nanchang, Xi'an
    Juneyao Air Shanghai–Hongqiao, Shanghai–Pudong
    Korean Air Seasonal: Seoul–Incheon
    Loong Air Hangzhou, Xuzhou,[25] Yinchuan
    Lucky Air Chengdu–Tianfu, Kashgar, Kunming, Ngari, Zhengzhou[26]
    Okay Airways Changsha, Xi'an
    Qingdao Airlines Lanzhou, Qingdao
    Shandong Airlines Aksu, Bangkok–Suvarnabhumi, Fuzhou, Hangzhou, Hotan, Jinan, Kashgar, Kunming, Lanzhou, Nanjing, Osaka–Kansai, Qingdao, Taiyuan, Xiamen, Yantai, Yinchuan
    Shanghai Airlines Hotan, Lanzhou, Shanghai–Hongqiao, Shanghai–Pudong, Zhengzhou
    Shenzhen Airlines Korla, Lanzhou, Shenzhen
    Sichuan Airlines Beihai, Beijing–Capital, Chengdu–Shuangliu, Chengdu–Tianfu, Chongqing, Guangyuan, Hangzhou, Jieyang, Kashgar, Kunming, Lanzhou, Lhasa, Luzhou, Mianyang, Nanning, Sanya, Sydney, Xi'an, Xining, Yibin, Zhengzhou, Zhongwei
    Somon Air Dushanbe, Khujand[27]
    Spring Airlines Lanzhou, Luoyang, Ningbo, Shanghai–Hongqiao, Shijiazhuang, Xi'an, Yangzhou
    Suparna Airlines Linfen,[28] Shenzhen[28]
    Tianjin Airlines Aksu, Altay, Aral,[29] Bole, Changsha, Chengdu–Tianfu,[29] Chongqing, Fuyun,[29] Guiyang,[29] Hami, Hangzhou, Hotan, Kashgar, Korla, Kuqa, Nalati, Nantong,[30] Qingdao,[31] Ruoqiang,[29] Sanya, Tacheng, Tianjin, Wuhan, Xi'an, Yancheng,[29] Yinchuan,[30] Yining, Zhengzhou, Zhuhai[30]
    Urumqi Air Bangkok–Suvarnabhumi, Changsha, Chengdu–Tianfu,[32] Fuzhou, Guangzhou,[33] Haikou, Hangzhou,[33] Hanzhong,[33] Hong Kong,[33] Hotan, Kashgar, Lanzhou, Longnan, Luoyang,[34] Mianyang, Nanchong, Nanjing, Qingyang,[35] Quanzhou, Shanghai–Pudong,[33] Wenzhou, Wuhan, Yulin (Shaanxi),[36] Yutian, Zhanjiang,[32] Zhengzhou
    Uzbekistan Airways Tashkent
    West Air Chongqing, Zhengzhou
    XiamenAir Beijing–Daxing, Changsha, Fuzhou, Hangzhou, Huai'an, Jinan, Quanzhou, Tianjin, Wuhan, Xiamen, Yinchuan, Zhengzhou

    Cargo[edit]

    AirlinesDestinations
    ASL Airlines Belgium Liège
    Ethiopian Cargo Addis Ababa[37]
    My Freighter Tashkent
    SF Airlines Tbilisi[38]
    Silk Way Airlines Baku
    Turkmenistan Airlines Ashgabat
    Uzbekistan Airways Ostrava
    YTO Cargo Airlines Hangzhou, Islamabad,[39] Moscow–Sheremetyevo

    Statistics[edit]

    Annual passenger traffic at URC airport. See Wikidata query.

    Other facilities[edit]

    When the airline existed, China Xinjiang Airlines had its headquarters on the airport property.[40]

    Ground Transport[edit]

    Line 1ofÜrümqi Metro opened on 25 October 2018 and links the airport to downtown Ürümqi.

    See also[edit]

    References[edit]

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